Sentences with phrase «of youth transitioning»

Georgia needs a comprehensive policy agenda to improve outcomes of youth transitioning into adulthood — particularly those at risk of dropping out, or being unemployed, homeless, or incarcerated.

I worked closely with these families through group counseling in order to aid in the preparation of their youth transitioning back home and back into society in a successful way.

The School Enrollment Process for Group Home Youth: An Examination of Interagency Collaboration on Behalf of Youth Transitioning Into New Group Homes Ayasse, Donahue, Berrick, & Duerr Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1 (3), 2007 View Abstract Examines the amount of time between the placement of youth in a new group home and enrollment and attendance in a new school, and seeks to understand the reasons for delays when they occur.

An untold number of youth transition out of foster care without the resources for higher education and the skills for employment, leaving them susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder and vulnerable to homelessness and incarceration.

Not exact matches

Vaping is addictive... or not... depending on who's doing it: «Among youth» (that's anybody who would never be caught dead using the word «youth»), «there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.»

They help thousands of homeless and youth victims of trafficking make the challenging transition to self - sufficiency, protecting and advocating for one of the most vulnerable populations.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Nationally, she serves on the Youth in Transition Funders Network and is co-Chair of the Foster Care Work Group.

Hundreds of young people of color gather to learn about climate justice and just transitions through an innovative agenda that is entirely developed and implemented by youth leaders.

Williams is responsible for facilitating the establishment of numerous statewide and community change initiatives the areas of budget and tax policy, after school programs, older youth transitioning from foster care, poverty alleviation, mental and behavioral health, and neighborhood revitalization.

For many youth transitioning out of care, it's a struggle just to survive — let alone thrive.

Among youth — who use e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults do — there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.

Those ministries range from helping the homeless, providing space for ministry classes, providing classes to people in the midst of job transition, place for youth to gather in a safe and supervised environment, the region's largest multi-week summer program for 1000 + children, to name just a few.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

Dan Barker's Godless is a great roadmap of the transition most atheists and agnostics experience as he himself was a youth pastor, later minister and influential Christian musician.

Although it is not an easy transition from youth player to first team because top level football is really hard and that is why clubs pay insanely for proven players but in a world of out - of - control transfer prices Le Jeff, Joe Willock, Reiss Nelson and other emerging players could form backups / understudy / replacements for our superstars who will leave at some point.

He was the first first - year scholar since Gary Neville to be made captain of the youth team and, like Fosu - Mensah and Williams, made the early transition to the Under 21 team with ease and looked more than ready for a crack at the senior team when injury sadly held him back.

Personally I think a miniature stadium would be a perfect starting point in terms of youth team facilities during the transition.

Making the transition from a failing French side to one of the leading addresses in world football is not for the faint - hearted and Spanish daily Marca has already reported that certain real youth coaches are unhappy that the newcomer will leapfrog over home - grown central defenders such as David Mateos and Nacho.

A framework for studying minority youths» transitions to fatherhood: the case of Puerto Rican adolescents.

The results, he said, are as follows: «In 2012, services represented 47 % of our GDP; in 2015, they represented almost 50 %, consolidating our transition to a modern, service - centered economy driven largely by technology and a vibrant youth.»

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

Participating youths will be provided with up to three monthly stipends of $ 300 each to cover costs associated with transitioning into the workplace.

«We honor the ability for this building to be a place of discovery for our youth, to be a place of intergenerational discovery for seniors and youth to come together, to be a place to be inspired by art and theatre, and to be a place where we realize our vision of a just transition in this community.»

Just 58 percent of youth had a transition plan by the federally required age.

The «National Autism Indicators Report: Transition into Young Adulthood» is a comprehensive report that presents new findings about a wide range of experiences and outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with autism.

Professor Katariina Salmela - Aro points out that autonomy support provided by mothers and fathers prevented depression during all three transitions and increased the self - esteem of youths in the final two transitions.

The researchers urge the education community to consider the role of afterschool classrooms and instructors in promoting supportive interactions and advancing academic outcomes for at - risk youth during this important transition to adolescence.

In this two - track, person - centered model, the READY Program will help youth with disabilities gain access to college or employment as they transition out of high school.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. January 7, 2016 — Kessler Foundation awarded a two - year, $ 500,000 grant to Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago to launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) Program — a transition program for high school students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, so that they can achieve economic independence after graduation.

NYC: AT WORK will provide training, internship, and apprenticeship opportunities to people with disabilities, including transitioning students and youth, college graduates, consumers of ACCES - VR and other state - funded VR agencies.

Frequency and correlates of service access among youth with autism transitioning to adulthood.

In fulfilling what the film is endeavoring to reveal concerning fate and consequence, we transition into the turbulent lives of youths Jason (Dane DeHaan) and A.J. (Emory Cohen), the respective offspring of our two main protagonists (Luke and Avery).

Perhaps the best way to approach All These Sleepless Nights, then, is not as documentary or even as drama, but as an abstract feature - length snapshot of youth in transition from the devil - may - care aimlessness of adolescence, to the initial agonized stirrings of adulthood.

«American Graffiti» is about innocence lost, the transition from youth to adult and the leaving of behind a life with few responsibilities into one that is fraught with them.

The actress, best known for her comedic turns in 21 Jump Street and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, delivers a dexterous, emotionally nuanced portrait of youth in transition, a young woman stuck precariously between her memories of her own teenage turmoil and her current reality of trying to be a mentor to those she's not all that far removed from.

The actress, who, prior to Bone, was already known in industry circles for her gritty portrayals of troubled youths in such independent films as Poker House and The Burning Plain seamlessly made the transition to big - budget studio fare playing a young «Mystique» in X-Men: First Class while still sticking to her indie roots with key roles in films like The Beaver, Like Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the Street.

Starting with our impetuous youth, then transitioning into our hardworking and enlightening 20's -30's, and finally ending in reconciling the loss of our youth and gain of out maturity.

If a civics program is important for our nation's future leaders across the board and to our democracy, it is more so for an immigrant community that is in a state of transition and whose youth struggle with issues of identity and belonging.

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

tructural Origins of Today's Youth Poverty and Inequality in Youth Transitions: the Emblematic Case of Uruguay

An overarching goal of the program is to support refugee youth through the major life transition of resettlement so that they are better able to focus on and succeed in school.

Transitions are important rites of passage for all students and are significant milestones for youth with disabilities and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

«School - to - work transition programs, which by definition originate in the schools, do not work for Hispanic youths because they are not there,» according to the study, which claims to be the first comprehensive examination of the school - to - work transition process for Hispanic youths in Boston.

In the first section, we present a literature review of three structural factors that affect youth's transitions in Uruguay: age bias in well - being distribution or intergenerational inequality, gender inequality and socio - economic inequality.

It also demonstrates that the present debate on unequal youth trajectories and the negative configurations of the transitions to adulthood among the poorest, can not be separated from a debate regarding Uruguay's distribution of welfare benefits, social transfers and social expenditure among different age groups.

In order to shed light on the precarious situation of youth in Uruguay, we argue that Uruguayan youth's decisions on their transition to adulthood are strongly determined by structural factors such as intergenerational and gender inequality.

«The lesson guides provide targeted educational interventions, from foundation right through the key phases of adolescence, in preparing youth transitions into the real world and financial complexity of adulthood.

This work is grounded in a coherent rationale and designates a series of indicators that demonstrate system - level, setting - level and individual - level practices to promote smooth transitions to early grades and growth across youth development outcomes for all children.

Investments in career - related experiences during high school can produce substantial and sustained improvements in the labor market prospects and transitions to adulthood of youth.